Lazy Loading Featured image.

I am currently using the following code but it does not seem to be loading the featured image first.

add_action( 'wp_head', function(){
$featured_img_url = get_the_post_thumbnail_url(get_the_ID(),'full');
echo '<link rel="preload" as="image" href="'.$featured_img_url.'"/>';
});

Can you please let me know what I can use in order to load the featured image first? so that the LCP be improved?

Thanks

Hi there,

you're images HTML is being adjusted - looks like Ezoic is performing some optimization. I would suggest you speak with Ezoic as they are changing the HTML and we cannot provide a code that will work with that.

Hi David... They were being modified but not anymore. How can I stop featured image from lazy loading now?

Hi there,

If it's the default lazyloading. Try adding this PHP.

// Disable WordPress Lazy Load
add_filter( 'wp_lazy_loading_enabled', '__return_false' );

Hi, I am using autoptimize for lazy loading for now.

Disabled default lazy loading of wordpress as suggested by Elvin (Using Snippets plugin). Also used classes to be excluded in Autoptimize plugin like:

wp-post-image

and

featured-image

but they are still lazy loading.

I checked a couple of random posts and your Images are still being manipulated by another plugin / server function - It has this class: ezlazyloaded and its using data-ezsrcset for its src-set... can't say for sure but it looks like thats Ezoics doing ... as i said before speak to Ezoic support.

Alright Thankyou.

You're welcome